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Foden's Whit Friday draws

Find out where your favourite band has been drawn for the Foden's on-line event which takes place this Friday and Saturday — from 1 to 119...

Fodens
  Fodens Band will host the two day event

Foden's have announced the draw details of the 119 bands who will compete in their 2021 Online Whit Friday Contests to be held on the weekend of Friday 28th & Saturday 29th May.

4.00pm starts

The contest which will be broadcast at 4.00pm each day has attracted entries from across the globe — with bands from each of the 'home' nations battling against ensembles from the USA, Japan, Singapore, Denmark and Australia, as well as a number of traditional Whit Friday 'scratch' bands.

Friday will kick-off at 4.00pm with the first 60 bands (broken into 20 band chunks to give you time for a tea break) followed on Saturday with the remaining 59 bands also starting at 4.00pm, and followed by the announcement of the results.

Friday 28th May (4.00pm):

1. Eccles Borough (England)
2. Marsden Silver Prize (England)
3. Hinnerup Garden (Denmark)
4. British Army Brass Band (England)
5. Dobcross Training (England)
6. Age UK 'Creating a Buzz' Band (England)
7. Aarhus Brass (Denmark)
8. Darwen Brass (England)
9. Elland Silver Community Brass (England)
10. Warringah Concert Brass (Australia)
11. Hitchin Band (England)
12. Distant Brass (Wales)
13. Coleshill Youth Brass (England)
14. Seindorf Arian Deiniolen (Wales)
15. Banovallum Brass (England)
16. King's Lynn Town (England)
17. St Helens Youth Brass (England)
18. SW COMMS Band (England)
19. Freckleton (England)
20. Cross Keys Silver (Wales)


21. Macclesfield Youth Brass (England)
22. UWCSEA Dover Brass Band — Singapore (Singapore)
23. Cory Band (Wales)
24. Houston Brass Band (USA)
25. University of Manchester Brass (England)
26. Enderby Band (England)
27. Wantage Band (England)
28. Royal Oakeley Silver (Wales)
29. Lions Youth Brass (England)
30. Audley Community Band (England)
31. Tendring Brass (England)
32. Langley Band (England)
33. Audley Brass (England)
34. Strata Brass (England)
35. Downton Band (England)
36. Wincanton Silver (England)
37. Trentham Brass (England)
38. Pontardulais Town (Wales)
39. Chiltern Hills Brass (England)
40. Selkirk Silver (Scotland)


41. Bendigo United Brass (Australia)
42. Bo'ness & Carriden (Scotland)
43. Whit Spirit (Worldwide)
44. Bilton Silver (Rugby) Band (England)
45. Mbale Schools Band (Uganda)
46. Immortal Brass Eternally (Japan)
47. Bearpark & Esh Colliery Band (England)
48. 1st Old Boys (Northern Ireland)
49. King's College London Brass (England)
50. Aldbourne Band (England)
51. Golborne Brass (England)
52. Red Admiral Brass (England)
53. Rockville Brass Band (USA)
54. Lindley (England)
55. Enderby Youth (England)
56. St Dennis Band (England)
57. Western Brass (Australia)
58. City of Birmingham Brass (England)
59. St. John's Band (Mossley) (England)
60. St Helens Youth Beginners Brass (England)


Saturday 29th May (4.00pm):

61. Galashiels Town (Scotland)
62. Test Valley Brass (England)
63. Dungannon Silver (Northern Ireland)
64. Ireland Colliery (Chesterfield) Band (England)
65. Littleport Brass (England)
66. Wroughton Silver (England)
67. Langley Community Brass (England)
68. VBS Poynton Band (England)
69. Amersham Community Brass (England)
70. Five Lakes Silver Band (USA)
71. Amersham Band (England)
72. Poyntzpass Silver (Northern Ireland)
73. Elland Silver Training (England)
74. Amersham Community Brass (England)
75. Camping and Caravanning Club Brass (UK wide)
76. Seindorf Beaumaris (Wales)
77. Wotton-under-Edge Silver (England)
78. Bedroom Brass (England)
79. Abbey Brass (Abingdon) (England)
80. Fakenham Town (England)


81. University of Huddersfield Brass (England)
82. UNISON Kinneil (Scotland)
83. Stonehenge Silver (England)
84. The National Youth Band of Denmark (Denmark)
85. Bollington Brass (England)
86. Hade Edge (England)
87. Salvo Brass (England)
88. Elland Silver (England)
89. Annan Town (Scotland)
90. Skelmersdale Prize (England)
91. Atlantic Brass Band (USA)
92. Gresley Colliery Youth (England)
93. Jackfield Band (England)
94. South Derbyshire Music Centre Family Brass (England)
95. Elland Silver Youth (England)
96. Wantage Concert Brass (England)
97. Dobcross Youth (England)
98. Third Carrickfergus (Northern Ireland)
99. Littleborough (England)
100. Loxley Silver (England)


101. Gresley Colliery Band (England)
102. Brass Roots — Amersham (England)
103. Milton Keynes Brass (England)
104. City of Bristol Brass (England)
105. The Ambassadors (England)
106. Wakefield Metropolitan Brass (England)
107. Langholm Town (Scotland)
108. GUS Band (England)
109. Oldham Music Centre Senior Band (England)
110. Kirkintilloch Kelvin Brass (Scotland)
111. Royston Town (England)
112. Rode Hall Silver (England)
113. Lochgelly (Scotland)
114. Strabane Brass (Northern Ireland)
115. Woodhouse Prize (England)
116. Brass Band of Central Florida (USA)
117. Lions Junior Brass (England)
118. Steel City Brass (England)
119. Tameside Youth/Hattersley Brass (England)

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